Art
July 15, 2015

Gorgeous Architectural Drawings Hidden Behind Empty Silhouettes of Other Buildings

Scotland-based artist Minty Sainsbury meticulously draws buildings that are hidden behind the silhouettes of other structures. Each piece offers an incredible amount of gorgeous detail, and she depicts every brick, window, and decorative facade in a photorealistic style using pencil. Despite spending so much time on these architectural features, Sainsbury obscures parts of her drawings with large, vague shapes.

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Art
July 13, 2015

Artist Reimagines Everyday Objects as Playfully Over-Sized Sculptures

Artist Rmulo Celdrn reimagines everyday objects as larger-than-life sculptures for his playful series called Macro. Things like bottle caps, ice cube trays, and sponges are scaled hundreds of times bigger for the sculpture series. Sometimes, this makes them well over seven feet tall. The gigantic sizing acts like a magnifying glass for these objects. By blowing up the small details, we see characteristics of the item that we'd normally miss because they're so small.

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Endangered Animals
July 10, 2015

Adorable Panda "Daycare" Committed to Saving the Endangered Species

Pandas, especially the babies, are some of the cutest animals on Earth. Unfortunately, their adorable population is also deeply endangered, with approximately 1,864 giant pandas left in the wild. The Chengdu Research Base in China is doing their part to help this diminishing species–they've created a specialized “daycare” that breeds, nurtures, and eventually releases the creatures back into the wild. Through this intensive program, they hope to slowly repopulate what's been lost over the years.

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